Posted
by
samzenpus
on Thursday November 28, 2013 @05:07AM
from the dive-time dept.

Zothecula writes "When was the last time you heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck? Never, that's when. Although that's partly because stuck turtles rarely make the news, it's also due to the fact that they're relatively small and highly maneuverable. With that in mind, the European Union-funded ARROWS project has created U-CAT – a prototype robotic sunken-ship-exploring sea turtle."

Technology for sewer monitoring is incredibly difficult. Active componentry, and even passive componentry tends to fail at an alarming rate due to being immersed in a chemical soup of practically arbitrary composition.

"Technology for sewer monitoring is incredibly difficult. Active componentry, and even passive componentry tends to fail at an alarming rate due to being immersed in a chemical soup of practically arbitrary composition."

Has the anthropomorphization/zoomorphization of robotics aided the technology's development by taking advantage of evolutionary designs or has it been saddled with this rather human propensity to do so? Both?

When was the last time you heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck? Never, that's when.

When was the last time a sea turtle ever reported to a human that they were trapped in a shipwreck? Never, that's when, and that's why you've never heard about a sea turtle getting stuck in a shipwreck. It's not that it doesn't happen, its that it's never reported due do the fact that turtles and people don't speak the same language...